An agreement has been reached over death row inmates’ subpoenas of Board of Pharmacy information about drugs used for lethal injection in Ohio.

At issue were attempts by inmates’ lawyers to find out more about the state’s lethal injection process, which now calls for two drugs Ohio doesn’t have and which may only be available in specialty doses created by compounding pharmacies.

Lawyers for Attorney General Mike DeWine said the request, including pharmacy inspection records, was too broad and would shut down the board for weeks or months as it provided thousands of pages of documents.

Lawyers for the state and for inmates said in a court filing Wednesday without giving details that the dispute has been resolved.

]]>http://wosu.org/2012/news/2015/03/26/agreement-reached-lethal-injection-information-request/feed/0Governor Delays Two Executions to Allow Time for Complete Review of Lethal Injection in Ohiohttp://wosu.org/2012/news/2009/10/05/governor-delays-two-executions-to-allow-time-for-complete-review-of-lethal-injection-in-ohio/
http://wosu.org/2012/news/2009/10/05/governor-delays-two-executions-to-allow-time-for-complete-review-of-lethal-injection-in-ohio/#commentsMon, 05 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0000Karen Kaslerhttp://wosu.org/2012/news/2009/10/05/governor-delays-two-executions-to-allow-time-for-complete-review-of-lethal-injection-in-ohio/Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland has delayed the state's next two executions to allow a full review of lethal injection procedures.

]]>http://wosu.org/2012/news/2009/10/05/governor-delays-two-executions-to-allow-time-for-complete-review-of-lethal-injection-in-ohio/feed/0injection,lethalOhio Gov. Ted Strickland has delayed the state's next two executions to allow a full review of lethal injection procedures.Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland has delayed the state's next two executions to allow a full review of lethal injection procedures.WOSU Newsno2:29Governor Grants Reprieve When Execution Team Unable to Administer Lethal Injectionhttp://wosu.org/2012/news/2009/09/15/governor-grants-reprieve-when-execution-team-unable-to-administer-lethal-injection/
http://wosu.org/2012/news/2009/09/15/governor-grants-reprieve-when-execution-team-unable-to-administer-lethal-injection/#commentsTue, 15 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0000Bill Cohenhttp://wosu.org/2012/news/2009/09/15/governor-grants-reprieve-when-execution-team-unable-to-administer-lethal-injection/Gov. Ted Strickland has delayed an execution after the Ohio execution team had problems finding the inmate's veins.

]]>Gov. Ted Strickland has delayed an execution after the Ohio execution team had problems finding the inmate’s veins.

Strickland ordered a week-long reprieve Tuesday afternoon after executioners struggled for about two hours to locate suitable veins for inserting IVs into 53-year-old Romell Broom.

The team began working on Broom, in a holding cell 17 steps from the execution chamber, shortly after 2 p.m. No Ohio governor has issued a similar last-minute reprieve since the state resumed executions in 1999.

Broom raped and stabbed to death a 14-year-old girl in 1984 after abducting her at knifepoint as she walked home from a Friday night football game with two friends. (Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

]]>http://wosu.org/2012/news/2009/09/15/governor-grants-reprieve-when-execution-team-unable-to-administer-lethal-injection/feed/0injection,lethalGov. Ted Strickland has delayed an execution after the Ohio execution team had problems finding the inmate's veins.Gov. Ted Strickland has delayed an execution after the Ohio execution team had problems finding the inmate's veins.WOSU Newsno37Unsealed Documents Detail Lethal Injection Procedure in Ohiohttp://wosu.org/2012/news/2007/12/28/unsealed-documents-detail-lethal-injection-procedure-in-ohio/
http://wosu.org/2012/news/2007/12/28/unsealed-documents-detail-lethal-injection-procedure-in-ohio/#commentsFri, 28 Dec 2007 00:00:00 +0000Jo Ingleshttp://wosu.org/2012/news/2007/12/28/unsealed-documents-detail-lethal-injection-procedure-in-ohio/Newly unsealed documents have revealed amissing log that documents the last hours of the first inmate executed by injection in Ohio.

]]>Newly unsealed documents have revealed a missing log that documents the last hours of the first inmate executed by injection in Ohio.

Prison officials have kept minute-by-minute logs of the executions of all inmates since the state resumed putting prisoners to death in 1999. But they long said they could not find a log for the first inmate to die, Wilford Berry.

The log turned up in the state’s procedures for executions unsealed by a Lorain County judge as part of a challenge to Ohio’s execution process.

Berry died February 19, 1999, the first inmate put to death in Ohio in 36 years.

His log includes the previously unreported detail that Berry received a sedative in the hours before his execution. (Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

]]>The U-S Supreme Court has agreed to determine the constitutionality of execution by lethal injection.

The court will hear a challenge from two death row inmates in Kentucky, but the use of lethal injection is also being challenged by 20 death row inmates in Ohio.

The three dozen states that use lethal injection use the same three-drug cocktail composed of an anesthetic followed by something to paralyze the muscles and then a substance to stop the heart. Death penalty critics have said if a prisoner is given an insufficient amount of anesthetic, he could suffer considerable pain and be unable to cry out.

]]>Several death row inmates are challenging the constitutionality of Ohio’s lethal injection process in federal court. Now, two men who are not facing the death penalty have the green light to challenge lethal injection in state court. Ohio’s attorney general is not pleased. Ohio Public Radio’s Bill Cohen reports

]]>http://wosu.org/2012/news/2007/08/30/more-challenging-ohios-lethal-injection/feed/0Biros execution canceledhttp://wosu.org/2012/news/2007/03/20/biros-execution-canceled/
http://wosu.org/2012/news/2007/03/20/biros-execution-canceled/#commentsTue, 20 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000Karen Kaslerhttp://wosu.org/2012/news/2007/03/20/biros-execution-canceled/The wait went down to the wire, but what would have been the first execution of the Strickland administration did not happen as scheduled.

]]>The U.S. Supreme Court has called off today’s scheduled execution of convicted killer Kenneth Biros.

Prisons officials had prepared him for the execution scheduled at ten this morning. Six hours after that, the high court declined to hear the state’s appeal of an order from a Cincinnati-based federal appeals court to delay the execution.

The wait was tough on relatives of the victim who traveled to the prison in Lucasville in southern Ohio.

Biros has acknowledged he killed 22-year-old Tami Engstrom in 1991. Her body was cut up and the parts scattered across eastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania.

The court delay is to allow him to argue with other inmates in a lawsuit saying Ohio’s method of execution by lethal injection is cruel and unusual punishment.

]]>The Ohio Public Defender’s Office has filed a new lawsuit challenging the use of injections to execute convicted killers in Ohio.

The lawsuit in federal court in Columbus says the way chemicals used in the injections work amounts to torture and violates constitutional protections against cruel and unusual punishment.

The lawsuit was filed on behalf of death row inmates Adremy Dennis and Richard Cooey, both convicted in Summit County.

Greg Meyers, head of the public defender’s office capital crimes division, says a U-S Supreme Court decision earlier this year strengthens the ability to bring such a lawsuit.

The country’s highest court ruled in May for the first time that a death row inmate can pursue a last-ditch claim that lethal injection is unconstitutionally cruel. A spokesman for the Ohio Attorney General’s office says lethal injection is humane and several courts have ruled it constitutional.